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Paolo Costa, head of the city’s port authority, hopes to make Venice a trading power once again with a massive portNew plans for a mega-port in Venice have been announced by the head of the city’s port authority despite a government ban on the biggest cruise ships from 2015 to save the threatened historic city.Paolo Costa, a former mayor of the World Heritage city and now president of its Port Authority, said Venice was in danger of becoming a Disney-style heritage attraction with no other sources of revenue than tourism and that it should seek a return to the days when it was a successful trading power.
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